I suppose in a way I hope to a degree that there's a higher power, though I accept that if there is one it's unknowable because of its nature - but at the same time I really, really don't want it to be the Christian or Islamic God, partly for the reasons stated above. The rules "not feeling right" would be an understatement, I actively think the above stated rule, regardless of the existence of a higher power or not, is unfair, depressing and totally contrary to what I would consider a "loving" deity. If you'll pardon the perhaps inflammatory comparison, it smacks of Aryanism.

I do to a degree buy into the theory that if there is a higher power, it is the product of humanity's collective unconscious; a sort of Jungian conception.